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      There’s a wealth of options between suburban sprawl and 50 story towers of 300 sqft apartments.

      https://missingmiddlehousing.com/

      Further: legalizing density doesn’t mean that you personally are forced into them. There will always be a market for detached single family homes, especially if you don’t value being in a city anyway.

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        I agree an apartment building is nothing but a glorified can.

        And its sucks

        The guy above you, below you or next to you has a sub woofer going? Yeah you have to listen to it.

        Have a home? Not anywhere near the issue.

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          Yeah but we’re ok with making sardine cans out of wood now, because who needs sound proofing. It’ll make housing cheaper

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        Yes, I refuse to ever live in a can, not being able to simply open my door and go for a walk. Trying to force that on people is cruel.

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          Nobody is forcing anything stop with the fake hysteria. it’s ok to make it legal to build apartments in more places if people want to.

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            Is that not what started this whole conversation? Someone claiming single family homes are bad and shouldn’t be built?

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              No, it wasn’t. They were saying the TAXING STRUCTURE for single family homes NEAR CITIES or close suburbs is bad. Single family homes out in the country or in smaller towns are fine. The density isn’t needed there. Single family homes in suburbs could be fine, if the taxes paid for denser housing that is needed to support a larger city. People in New York are able to live in the city because of dense housing availability or easy access to commuter trains to get farther out where less dense housing exists. People in Los Angeles/Houston/Atlanta don’t have great public transport options AND don’t have much high density housing, so the sprawl is horrendous (along with the associated car traffic). If the taxes for single family homes in Los Angeles were higher than for condos/townhouses, then the city could fund either higher density housing (which are actually banned by local zoning laws in some neighborhoods, since nobody wants an apartment building next to their single family home) or better public transport for people living farther out of the city.

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      Lol are you my wife? She’s like, “We need space so we’re not looking into the neighbor’s windows.”

      And 100% of the time, I think she’s implicitly opting to pay an additional 2-3 hundred thousand dollars (where we are) just to be on an .5 acres of land, living on 15% of that half acre, and utilizing like 5% of it on a daily basis.

      We don’t need that much space. We shouldn’t be laid on top of one another like sardines in a can, but we also don’t need to waste as much space as we do for real comfort and fake status. There’s a lot of transformation between the urban dispersion of the Southwest (where I live and everything is far away from everything else) and the urban density of Manhattan.

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        So your wife sees at as simply a status thing it sounds like, that is stupid. I need space because I have dogs, I like to have backyard parties, and I genuinely think I would hate my life if I opened my front door into a hallway.

        I also hate big cities. Anything over 20k is too much population for my liking.